Alabama's freight runs from the water inland. There are ports at Mobile and Guntersville, roll-on/roll-off berths and petroleum terminals at Mobile, and liquid-bulk terminals at Chickasaw, Creola and Decatur. Coal mines and prep plants work around Brookwood, Concord, Oakman and Adamsville, cement plants run at Calera, Ragland and Demopolis, and crushed-stone quarries are spread across the state.
A Peterbilt day cab out of Birmingham, a Volvo sleeper off a Decatur run, an International dump truck near Dothan or a Ford dually out of Mobile all get the same look: send us photos and the details, an offer comes back, and if it suits you we can come to you, buy it remotely, or you can drive it to us.
Alabama’s trucking industry is one of the most active in the Southeast, with major freight corridors connecting manufacturers and ports across the region.
The railway has its own rules and the road has these. Ala. Code § 32-9-20 sets overall gross weight at 80,000 lb including all enforcement tolerances , the opposite structure from states that grant an allowance on top of a base limit, so there is nothing to add and nothing to lose. Subsection (a)(4)c permits 84,000 lb on six axles where first and last axle sit 44 ft or more apart on the state network, with a 10% scale and enforcement tolerance under (4)d; the interstate is capped separately at the plain figure. Subsection (a)(4)e relieves dump trucks, dump trailers, concrete mixers and special-type-work trucks of the axle-spacing requirement where all axles are brake equipped. Ala. Code § 32-9-26 caps a farm trailer and its load at 36,000 lb combined, or 10,000 lb per axle, whichever is less. Travel on a posted bridge is a violation.
The paperwork is one sentence, and everything after it is a fix rather than a category. The branding rule is worth knowing before you list a damaged truck anywhere. Under Ala. Code § 32-8-87 a total loss occurs where an insurer or another person pays or settles and the damage is 75% or more of the fair retail value of the vehicle prior to the damage, taken from a current edition of a nationally recognised compilation of retail values. Payments for medical care, bodily injury, rental or anything other than actual damage to the vehicle do not count toward that figure — a large settlement is not a large repair number. Minor damage from theft or vandalism is not a total loss regardless of the arithmetic. A vehicle restored in Alabama needs a rebuilt inspection before a salvage title can become a rebuilt one. Kentucky also brands at 75% and it is not the same rule. Alabama pins the base to a named class of source and to the moment before the damage; the percentage is the smaller half of the difference.
Alabama farm rules
Farm ceilings, and the general one above them
Ala. Code § 32-9-2 permits towing cotton wagons and module-movers from field to gin on state highways but not on any interstate or limited-access highway, with a maximum of two wagons, each 10 ft wide and 85 ft overall. Ala. Code § 32-9-26 caps a farm trailer and its load at 36,000 lb combined, or 10,000 lb per axle, whichever is the lesser. Ala. Code § 32-9-20 sets overall gross weight at 80,000 lb including all enforcement tolerances , the opposite structure from a state granting an allowance on top of a base figure — so there is nothing to add to it. Counties may authorise lower limits by resolution, so there is no statewide county-road figure.
Ala. Code § 32-9-2, § 32-9-26 and § 32-9-20.